THE ARKANSAS COURT OF Appeals certainly threw a
monkey wrench into Southwestern Electric Power Co.'s plans for a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County.
From environmental writer Edward Abbey, author of The
Monkey Wrench Gang, which helped inspire the radical environmental group Earth First!, to the zoot-suiters, a youth counter-culture that emerged among predominately African American and Mexican American youths during the late 1930s, this three-volume encyclopedia contains some 500 entries describing a broad array of topics associated with religious, political, identity, artistic, and lifestyle countercultures across American history.
FOUR teenagers were arrested after police found a
monkey wrench in their car.
"But there's always something - some
monkey wrench. What we need is more cooperation and fewer
monkey wrenches."
There's hard rock from Foo Fighters (
Monkey Wrench) and The Who (The Seeker); flashbacks from Creedence mainman John Fogerty (Fortunate Son) and JJ Cale (Call Me The Breeze); pop from Blur (The Universal) and REM (Electrolite); folk-pop from Damien Rice (The Blower's Daughter) and David Gray (Birds Without Wings) and stadium rock from Coldplay (The Scientist).
"Dioxin throws a
monkey wrench into a number of cellular processes," says Linda Birnbaum of the U.S.
1969: Dave Grohl, former Nirvana drummer and now frontman of the Foo Fighters - whose hits include Learning To Fly, All My Life and
Monkey Wrench, is 39 today
Enter the
monkey wrench. Or, for the more gracious among us, the impromptu opportunity to make a new friend (or two ...
The gang also burst into Leamington plumbing suppliers Plumbsave, in Clemens Street, where they threatened staff with a
monkey wrench before escaping with more than pounds 3,000.
Following an argument with her husband, Yolande storms out of the shop just before a customer enters - and hits Patrick on the back of the head with a
monkey wrench.
In the mid-1970s, he finished what would become his best-known novel, The
Monkey Wrench Gang.
